$70 DIY acoustic tractor beam moves objects with sound
Tractor beams may soon be no longer fictional tools under the command of starship captains, as a team of researchers...
Scientists turn nuclear waste into diamond batteries that last virtually forever
Researchers have found a way to use diamonds to convert nuclear waste into long-lasting batteries. A team of physicists...
Cracked cellphone screens will soon be able to repair themselves
Have you ever been misfortunate or clumsy enough to drop your phone, leaving a spiderweb of cracks that, at best,...
New self-healing material could repair airplanes in mid-flight
First there were video phones and then along came self-driving cars. Now, it looks like another sci-fi cliché,...
Scientists Discover a 400 Mile Canyon Below Greenland Ice Sheet
Most of Greenland is covered in a thick sheet of ice, but scientists have just discovered another vast canyon beneath...
British Mission to Drill Down to Subglacial Lake Ellsworth in the Antarctic is Derailed
Photo via Shutterstock It appears that the formidable ice sheets of the Antarctic have gotten the best of a...
It Took Earth’s Species 10 Million Years To Recover After “The Great Dying”
Considering that our planet may be on the precipice of experiencing its sixth mass extinction event, this makes...
Velcro-Like Cells On Petals Help Bees to Keep Their Grip on Flowers
A team of scientists from the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol have discovered that velcro-like cells on plant...
New Magnetic Soap Could Clean Up Oil Spills Quickly and Efficiently
With the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill still impacting the local environment and the recent Costa Concordia accident...
Scientists Design a Fake Volcano for Climate Change Experiment
Earlier this year a group of thinkers around the world gathered at Chicheley Hall outside of London to talk about...
